Simplify Your Solutions
Writing by admin on Sunday, 16 of August , 2009 at 3:08 am
If a simple solution can meet your needs, by all means, embrace it! Think Kiss—keep it super simple. You’ll make moving toward a more organized life easy if you iuss your way to order. Here are some ideas:
• Do less laundry. Pass out one towel per person a week. Change bedsheets every two weeks or more. Wear clothes more than once, when you can. (Slacks, skirts, and lightly worn tops often can be worn several times between washings.) Redirect children who want to change clothes (and towels) more than is needed.
• Wear glasses that darken automatically in the sun. My path was strewn with lost sunglasses before I changed over to a prescription pair that turn dark in sunlight and become clear again in the shade.
• Cover your bed with a comforter or thick quilt. A fluffy topper hides a multitude of wrinkles underneath. Perfectionists, especial, spend too much lime trying unnecessarily to straighten the sheets and blankets. The main question is whether it “passes” as a made bed. In bed making, a C grade is good enough.
• Cook with nonstick cookware, and replace it when it starts to stick! It cleans so easily. Sometimes all you have to do is swipe it with a little soap and
water and put it back. It’s far easier than putting it in and taking it out of the dishwasher.
• Avoid complicating your life with “innovations” that don’t work for you. For instance, I tried the rechargeable-battery approach. It promised all good things. I approved of the savings and the ecological benefits. The only problem was that I never was able to use it. Remembering which batteries needed charging and which didn’t, and where each group was kept, was just too complicated for me. Undoubtedly many people do it easily and can’t understand what my problem is. I don’t fully understand it either. The only thing I know is that for me buying already charged batteries is the best way (no, the only way) to go.
Sometimes the simple solution means giving up a complicated organizational trick. I confess that in my pursuit of order I tried keeping my spices alphabetized. I quickly found it more trouble than it was
worth. There were numerous occasions when I have over organized, only to abandon my system for something more effective and easier.
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